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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 491

June 24, 200019 counties in Illinois; 51 counties in Indiana; 14 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT for 19 counties in Illinois; 51 counties in Indiana; 14 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 84 counties

Clark County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY

Warnings issued inside it

2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Monroe29 min
Jun 24, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningINDBrown, Monroe33 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-319 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 29 more4 hr
Jun 24, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 35 more4 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.